Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

Who do you hang out with?" Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real dickhead things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out.

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs